[Jukebox-list] AMI C problems

[Rick Force]

Thank you for your reply Gary. When a record is selected, the finger comes up and closes the start sw and nothing more happens. It will play if I push the scan sw and the rack makes contact with the finger (or I push one of the rack sws myself) and it will play. The cancel only works from the cabinet button (or the remote terminals on the junction box), not the tone arm cancel (they call it reversing) switch. I checked continuity for all 3 sws (cam, reversing and start), and cleaned the start and took apart the cam sws and cleaned them. I also checked continuity for those sws at their respective 4 pin plugs at the mech junction box and they checked good. Have not checked the 2 rack sws (they both work), but they are out of adjustment. I will have to check the alignment of that cam sw since I removed it. Thank you, Gary,  Rick.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gary Young<mailto:gazzyoung_uk at yahoo.co.uk> 
  To: Jukebox mailing list<mailto:jukebox-list at lists.netlojix.com> 
  Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 6:28 AM
  Subject: Re: [Jukebox-list] AMI C problems


  Hi Rick, from your description, I find it difficult to
  understand whats happening. Can you answer the
  following

  Can you select a record and have it play? Does the
  problem arise when you try to reject and nothing
  happens? Can you reject the record from the main
  reject switch in the large junction box at side of
  cabinet? Can you reject the record using the reject
  switch next to the tone arm post? If you have taken
  apart and reassembled the cam/reversing micro switch
  (this sits upright behind the tone arm post), it is
  vital that this is adjusted according to the manual.
  It may take some trial and error to get it right.
  Having owned an AMI B for many years, for me, this has
  been the source of the very few problems I have had
  with this machine. It did start behaving very
  erraticly  last year and the source of the problem
  this time was in the two micro switches at the front
  of the mech. Again removing them, opening them and
  cleaning the contacts cured the problem. As I
  mentioned before, watch out for the tiny spring which
  has a tendacy to fire across the room. These switches
  I think are identical to the cam micro switch. You
  will need to take the screws out of the brackets that
  hold the 2 metal rods in place, remove records,
  disconnect all cables, then the whole assembly should
  just lift out for disassembly. If you take your time,
  and make notes as you go for reasembly, I found it to
  be a fairly easy task and I am no mechanical genius.
  It might be an idea you get hold of a spare switch in
  case you screw up. I hope this is of help. For future
  reference, I would be interested to hear other members
  views on this and how you resolve your problem. Good
  luck 

  Regards

  Gary



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